To encourage interaction and collaboration among students was the goal when the Blavatnik School of Government (University of Oxford, England) decided to make one building out of three. The architectural design by Herzog & de Meuron reflects the open communication concept.
An unusual use of sedak’s autoclave: Instead of oversize glass laminates, now a racing car chassis hardened in the pressure chamber. sedak, thus, sponsors the up-and-coming racing team “Starkstrom Augsburg”. 2016 will be the fifth time, the crew takes part in the “Formula Student Germany” competition.
Since 2015, sedak fabricates oversize insulating glass with the world’s largest, 145m long insulating glass line. It enables the glass manufacturer to produce double and triple units up to 15m, fully automated and in a reproducible quality.
With its new AutomationCenter, FESTO AG & Co. KG (Esslingen) has entered into a new era. The highly modern sixteen-floor building offers 400 members of staff space for innovation and the development of new customer solutions. The high-rise building with its rhombic cross-section is an architectural highlight that also has impressive “inner qualities”.
With the social media channels @sedak_de and @sedak_int, sedak now tweets for its German and international followers. The glass manufacturer from Gersthofen, Bavaria, is also present on Facebook at the address facebook.com/sedak.leading.glass.
Brookfield Place just designed by César Pelli (Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects) is located downtown Manhattan and west of the Freedom Tower. The shopping mall has quickly established itself as a linch-pin for fashion, culture, and cuisine. The complex stands out for its high transparency. For the two main entrances at the north and south side, all-glass façades have been designed. The highlight: even the supporting construction is made of glass.
Not only can sedak produce oversize glass units; sedak also moves mountains. For the HT Group, a supplier of room solutions in the sector of medical engineering, the fabricator has produced a 9m x 3m digital printed glass pane.
A glacier in the middle of a city? That’s something you can only find in Sweden – in Gothenburg. Here, in 2014, “Glasiären”, a six-storey, blue-shimmering office building was built in the trendy quarter of Kvilbäcka/Kvillebäcken. So that this “glacier” – which is exactly what Glasiären means – does not get too warm, the owners decided to use dimmable solar control glass from EControl-Glas (Plauen, Germany).
During the jury session under the chairmanship of Sir Peter Cook (Crab Studio, London, UK) on 8 May in Berlin, two first prizes and three special mentions were awarded.
Founded in 2007, sedak, the glass fabricator in Gersthofen, Germany, is the world’s leading manufacturer of oversize insulating and safety glass. sedak supplies glass units in dimensions up to 3.2m x 16m: processed, tempered, laminated, printed, coated and cold bent.